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I'm not fluent, but I've been studying for 3 years now. I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words. When I see Cyrillic, my brain imme

I'm not fluent, but I've been studying for 3 years now. I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words. When I see Cyrillic, my brain immediately switches to Russian. When it's latin sounding out Russian, it takes a stupid amount of time for me to realize and comprehend what they are trying to say.

asveikau 5y ago
Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? Seems like there are also french influenced transliterations for vowels. These can be inconsistent based on the source.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. Yeah, that leads to the question of which transliteration to use. > One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Eng Michael(?) Gorbachev, Ger Michail Gorbatschow, Swe Mikhail Gorbatjov... > Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? 'Xackly: Eng/Ger Boris Yeltsin, Swe Boris Jeltsin.
justsomehnguy 5y ago
> I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words Except nobody knows how the Russian characters even sounds: https://youtu.be/m0i8IBZklZg?t=9 https://youtu.be/m0i8IBZklZg?t=9